Agency Communication Design for Contingency Cellular Network

• Main Authors: Chang, Hui Ching, 張惠晴
• Other Authors: Lien, Yao Nan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31843989873524862033

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 資訊科學學系 === 101 === When stricken by a catastrophic natural disaster, the efficiency of disaster response operation is very critical to life saving. The efficiency of disaster response operation is greatly depending on communication systems. However, they were usually not dependable, including cellular networks, and often crashed due to power outage and backhaul link breakage. The failure of communication systems caused a big coordination problem to many disaster response operations. This thesis proposes a Contingency Cellular Network (CCN) by connecting isolated base stations to survival base stations using long-range wireless links to restore part of cellular network functionality. People can use their own cell phones for emergency communication in the disaster areas. CCN will be able to support many disaster response workers in the early hours of catastrophic natural disasters, thus to save many lives. Since the receiver of a phone call in a disaster area is usually a resource (agent), not a particular person, we designed a special Agency communication mode for CCN allowing CCN users to initiate a phone call to a nearby resource by dialing a designated agency number, instead of a real phone number. To verify our design, we implemented an emulated CCN system using an IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN to mimic the CCN network and Android small phones with VoIP software to mimic user terminals. Finally, we conducted a series of experiments to evaluate the performance of the emulated system. The experimental results show that the emulated system can respond promptly to the user registration and call set-up requests. Mouth-to-Ear Delay (MED) can be effectively controlled below 400 ms when there is no more than 30 calls originated. This system may be used as reference for the future development of contingency communication networks.